Here are ten actors who have starred in the most westerns.

Many of the other icons of the western genre simply would not exist without the precedent that Mix set.

The Miracle Rideris not currently available to stream in the US.

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda

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This inclusion of a genuine moral dilemma changed the western genre forever.

Kinski was known for playing villains, but would occasionally be given the opportunity to take on lead roles.

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Walter Brennan in ‘The Westerner’

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Tom Mix in The Miracle Rider

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Henry Fonda as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

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Abby and Captain Holden looking ahead in Unconquered

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Franco Nero In Django

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James Stewart wears a cowboy hat and holds a pistol with horses in the background in Two Rode Together (1961)

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Klaus Kinski as Gary-Hamilton wears a hat and stands near a shack in the desert in And God Said To Cain.

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Lee Van Cleef stands in a rocky valley, aiming a pistol in The Big Gundown

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Clint Eastwood as Walt Coogan wears a cowboy hat and talks to a woman in Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

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John Wayne wearing a cowboy hat and leather vest, standing on a mountainside in Big Jake (1971)

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